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I tried to be Google free for a couple of months by dropping Chrome and Google's search for Firefox and DDG. It was a painful experience. Without going in to de
by mbostleman 8y ago
I tried to be Google free for a couple of months by dropping Chrome and Google's search for Firefox and DDG. It was a painful experience. Without going in to detail (though I easily could), the stability, performance, and quality just was not there at all. In the end, the final straw was a critical business app that I use that had one too many problems with Firefox. I ended up having to bail. I still look forward to the day that I can ditch Google, but it isn't going to be today unfortunately.
- ldiracdelta 8y agoI prefer to fail-over to google. If DDG doesn't work, then I use google by typing !g in the search bar. Using DDG and increasing their audience should hopefully make them better in the long run.
- ithilglin909 8y agoFor a long time, I felt that Firefox was just less nice to work with than Chrome and couldn't quite make the switch. However, Firefox developer addition feels pretty "Chrome-like" and I've yet to experience any noticeable performance or stability issues.
- cannonedhamster 8y agoI'm really curious about the business app you had problems with. I've yet to experience any issues with Firefox and apps since moving back to FF shortly before they moved to Quantum. I do know there are many apps that take advantage of non-standard features supported by Chrome, which could be the case here. I was finally able to completely ditch Google, though because of going back to college to finish up my degree, I'm stuck with MS for a bit longer, though I've been fairly pleased with W10, I'm a sucker for the Ubuntu subsystem.